TVSU terminates abnormally (31-Jan-09)

‎01-31-200908:34 AM

Two days or so ThinkPad System Update 3.14 was running. Today it is not. It errors during the splash screen (almost immediately) with a Windows error dialog box (I can't attach a JPEG, so I typed it out):

Window Title: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library[X in red circle] Runtime Error!Program C:\Program Files\Lenovo\System Update\tvsu.exeThe application has requested the Runtime to terminate in anunusual way.Please contact the application support team for more information

This is a Windows Vista Ultimate T61, fully updated (Windows and Lenovo) as of a day or so ago, and now it is malfunctioning.

Separately and distinctly, this happened several months ago on an R40 and I never fixed it. When I first discovered that problem, I tried deleting TVSU and reinstalling, but on that computer it behaved as before.